Just more internet clutter for Google to index
Finally gotten around to getting a USB turnable to breath some life into some of my old vinyl records.. So a couple of hours and some mucking about with Audacity later I have manage to rip: Life’s Too Good – The Sugarcubes Lovely – The Primitives Saint Julian – Julian Cope Excellent…. I need to [...]
Rick Santorum appalling polician, excellent Spoonerism
…. or maybe Knots An interesting little article on the up and coming ribbonification of the Win 8 Explorer Windows 8 Explorer Ribbonification Especially in comparison to the pending adoption of the HUD interface by Canonical Ubuntu HUD (ooo look, a linux article on the beeb) Interestingly these developments seem to fly in the face [...]
listening to….. Punk & Poetry by The King Blues (punk, ska, love songs and agitprop) reading…. The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe (I finished reading American Gods recently and thought ‘God thats a lot like Soldiers in the Mist’ turns out Gaiman is Wolfes biggest fan) Little known fact GW is one [...]
I have been watching the fallout from the MS Windows 8 demo with some quiet amusement Windows 8 HTML Javascript panic With some fairly apocalyptic articles about Silverlight and even .Net being dropped. Spreading FUD amongst your opponents is one thing, but amongst your supporters is going some. It’s interesting to see the amount of [...]
Here is a very interesting article on migrating to Scala from Java, not only on the technical gotcha’s (readability, null handling and what parts of Scala functionality they avoided), but also in the route they took in getting general acceptance of the new language within the organisation. InfoQ Guadian Scala BTW I have read the [...]
More proof, if any was needed, that Nokia has obviously backed a winner this time
Just seen this video review and started giggling like a complete loon in the middle of the office… not cool. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2757-DC-Universe-Online Not seen much of DCU, though by rep it seems to be more of a 3rd person shooter style (http://hill-kleerup.org/blog/heroes/2011/02/because-occasionally-i-feel-like-i-should-post-something-other-than-tweets.html) What with Champions Online having to hit the “free-play” button to get players, it [...]
..albeit in a cynical, barking kind of way .. Nokia Plans A .. 9 The best being Plan R
Normally Mr Monbiot writes quite a a bit of self satisfied eco-tosh, but occasionally some articles hit the mark, and tax city heist of the century is one of them